Explorative Study of Vitamin D Deficiency in Elderly Patients and Its Association With Hip Fracture

Introduction: Vitamin D is the most important vitamin for bone health; Hip Fracture is the most severe fragility Fracture and is associated with a remarkable increase in mortality and morbidity. to assess the effect of vit Objective: amin d deciency among elderly patients with hip fracture and without hip fractures. This study was conduct Material and Methods: ed during period of May 2017- May 2018 at our tertiary care centre. Male patient sixty year or more and postmenopausal women fty year and above with or without fracture were selected as per following inclusion and exclusion criteria It is a prospective, analytical, case control study to measure assessments of vitamin D deciency. We studied serum vit D level, BMD score and FRAX score in these patients. In Observation and Result: our study, among elderly patients who presented to us with hip fracture, 72% had vitamin D deciency and 2% patients had vitamin D insufciency while 26% of patients with hip fracture had sufcient levels of vitamin D. The values of vitamin D in respective group are: In control group, mean value of vitamin D level was 35.549 (SD ± 13.285) and the case group had mean value of 22.380 (SD±12.059).The data was statistically signicant (p value 0.001). The mean value of BMD in control group: was 1.8278 (SD± 0.77778) and in case group was 2.7480(SD ± 0.72766). In our study we also included FRAX score and the mean value of FRAX score in control group is 5.6260 (SD±3.16362). In case group the, mean value was 7.8560 (SD ± 4.09146 ). Conclusions: d a low concentration of vitamin D, BMD and high FRAX score as compared to the control group